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Yet Another Scrabble Blog
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No Scrabble game content since March 36!?!?!
Yowzers.  It's been almost 2 months since I have posted about live games.  That just goes to show how little I have been playing over the board recently. 

Well tonight I am going over to etheridge2's house and Andrew Solomon and BriCap will be there.  Should make for some good playing.  I am looking forward to not only the games, but the analysis as I haven't had much to go on in the past little bit. 

Yay, Scrabble!!


I will now pick up my dictionary and give you an alphabets worth of random words of varying degrees of difficulty:

AAHIORPT
BCEIKLOO
AACGMNRS
DHOOPRST
EEELSTU
ACFHRTU (has 3 alternative spellings too - AFHKRTU, CFHORTU, FHKORTU)
EGLUTT (takes a D, R & S)
HIILPU
ACIIOMST
ACJKLLOR
DEEHIKV (has an adjectival spelling as well)
ADEELPPT
AEEMQTTU
MNNOPRTU
CIIILNOV
AILLPRTY
CEEINQRU
BGILNORT
AABCDLNS
ABHOORTS  (has an alternate spelling)
CKIPSTU  (cause I missed it in a game a few weeks ago)
AAORSVV  (has an alternate spelling)
ADENRRWY
AEHNNOTX
AACHMSY (has 2 alternates - AAKHMSY & AAKMSY
AAEIRTTZ




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Happy Birthday to Erica and Dave!
That is all.

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3 Quackle games for your viewing pleasure...
I got pretty lucky in my first 2 games, and my 3rd was a route.

This is a study exercise so any and all commentary is very much welcomed.


Game 1
(I have some bad math in here.  When I play BYLINE, it put me up 49 instead of 51 and ICY would have put me up 40 instead of 30.)

Game 2

Game 3


Thanks.


PS - Damn, it's 1:45.  I need to go to bed.

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For my next trick...
For lack of live games, and for a bit of accountability, I will now proceed to play 3 games against Quackle and post them here. 

Please feel free to comment extensively with very insightful strategical musing.

Thanks in advance.  More to come.

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This is ridiculous
I am already starting to get panicky about bombing the Arden. 

I need to get a little perspective.

Does everyone else get this as profoundly as I do, or is it just me?

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This weekend: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

The Good: 

- Quinn's 1st Birthday! (Sunday)  He is by far the most beautiful kid in the world.
- Quinn's party Saturday.
    menu:  hamburgers, hotdogs, shrimp/clam packs (with tomato/shallot/garlic relish - done on the grill), fresh fruit, dill potato salad (left at home), veggie skewers, Guinness cupcakes with homemade cream cheese icing (sooo good)
- Making berry and orange zest pancakes with farm sausage and  free range eggs for Katy for breakfast on Sunday.
- Quinn sleeping straight through said breakfast.
- My mom being in town for "Mother's Day"
- Dinner at the Atwood Cafe last night (carrot-ginger soup, braised pork chop with caper olive relish, smashed white beans, and warm banana-rum bread-pudding  - yum.)
-Katy's dad and little brother being in town for the festivities.
-I didn't drink a drop of coffee all weekend.


The Bad:

- It being too cold and windy for anyone to want to hang out for Quinn's birthday.  :o(
- Ratio of work to actual party:  ~15/1
- All of the preparation and aftermath from the party leaving my house a complete wreck.
- Losing to my mom in a Scrabble game (She played pLAUDI(T)S and (B)ASKETRY!)
-I didn't drink a drop of coffee all weekend.


The Ugly:

- Katy's Dad bringing his new girlfriend in town.  ugh.


All-in-all a very good weekend, but the party was, needless to say, disappointing.  It was good to see friends ever so briefly and Quinn had a great time until he got too miserable from the cold.  We made a balloon garden for him to romp around in for a little while, which he loved.  Now those same 10 balloons are in our house.  Did I mention our house is a disaster area.

For the next two weeks, I have the Arden to prepare for (anyone who wants games should contact me!) and an awesome hip-hop show to go to this weekend (El-P, Dizzee Rascal, and Busdriver!).

Life is good.

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My New Scoresheet!
What do you think?  I really like the tracker, but maybe that's just me.

The six columns under each name refer to 1) word played, 2) leave, 3) Quackle sim rank, 4) preferred word in Quackle sim w/ position & score, 5) turn score, 6) total score.

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Meme Me!
1) What’s the last thing you put in your mouth?
Hobgoblin Dark English Ale.  Drinking lunch!!!!!

2) Have you ever kissed anyone named Matt?
I don't think so.

2a) Have you ever kissed anyone named Matilda?
Is it bad that I am more sure of this one that the first.

3) What does your last text message say?
"Me, too.  Thought it was Sunday."  In response to my workmate's message yesterday morning of  "Running late.  Super hungover."

4) What was the last song you listened to?
TV On the Radio's "Staring at the Sun".  So good.

5) If you hated someone and got put in charge of their funeral music, what would it be?
"Fruit Salad"  by the fuckin' Wiggles

6) What did you do yesterday?
Woke up at ~5:30, thought it was Sunday, hung out with my son and wife, realised it was Monday, took a shower, read on the train, got to work late, no big deal, fucked around on the internet, studied 8's and quizzed 4s to make 5s, other things as well, went home, took care of Quinn while Katy went to class, made a new scoresheet, revamped George's CD (mailing it today I promise), didn't do laundry, drank 4 glasses of milk, went to bed.

7) What did you dream about?
Scrabble.  Always.  These days, it's generally about Nationals or the Arden and I am always making a fool of myself.

8) Pick a scar on your body - what did you do?
Ran my eye full speed into the corner of a table to get a little scar was I was 3 or 4.

9) ?  - Fuck 9 is what I always say.

10) !  - !

11) Last time you cried?
I don't really remember the last time I full out cried, but I get all choked up when my son is around, especially when he's sleeping.  I never thought I could love anyone the way I love him.

12) Who’s your most religious friend?
Blake Edwards.  Probably my best friend in the whole World, but this one point we have two very different stances on.

13) Who do you trust with your life?
Not very many people.  Unfortunately.

14) If you could change your name to anything what would it be?
Sure as hell not Bret.  {{shutters}}

15) What would you do if someone told you that you were the most beautiful handsome person in the world and they would do anything to wake up to your face each and every morning?
Say, "Thanks, but I'm taken."  Unless that person was Katy and then I'd say "Katyyyyyy, you're embarassing meeeee!!"

16) % -  *<|:o)

17) Do you trust all of your friends?
No.  Long story.  Some of my friends have really broke my heart.

18) Would you move to another state or country to be with the one you love?
Of course.

19) Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?
No. 

20) What are two things you would N0T tolerate in a relationship?
Dishonesty and negativity

21) Which one of your top friends do you think would make the best prostitute?
Jeremy Cahnmann

22) Who is the nicest person you know?
My wife, followed closely by Blake (see best friend)

23) What is a goal you would like to accomplish in the near future?
Top 10 at the Arden would be great.

28) If you were to wake up from being in a coma for an extended time who would you call?
Probably the nurse.  I would like to think that most of the people I would call would be around me.

29) Would you make a good parent?
I would like to think so.

30) Where was your default picture taken?
Canyon's Restaurant in Banner Elk, NC on NYE 2006.  The hand in the picture belongs to my friend Brian.

31) Honestly, what’s on your mind right now?
Studying

32) Who knows you the best?
Katy, Blake and everyone else follows distantly.  I am a pretty closed off person it turn out.

33) When is the last time you truly liked someone?
right now......now........now

34) What are your plans for the weekend?
Quinn's 1st Birthday!  My parents will be in town and so will Katy's dad (and girlfriend).  Cooking out in the park with friends.  Sounds pretty good to me.

37) What’s your favorite saying?
Indeed.

39) Have you ever punched a tree?
I'm pretty sure I have.  I used to have some rage issues.

40) Have you ever snuck out of your house/someone in your house?
Actually no.  That surprises me.

41) How would you describe your relationship with your best friend?
Always picking up right where we left off despite huge gaps in space and time.

42) Morning or night person?
Both.  I only need about 4 or 5 hours of sleep so, I see 1 AM and 5 AM pretty regularly.  You'd think I would be a lot more productive with all of those hours.

43) Are you there for your friends?
I would like to think so, although I feel very selfish a lot.  If I am ever being selfish, you should totally call me out on it.

44) Do you like to spend time with people?
Of Course, but I have to, have to have my own time.

46) Are you a forgiving person?
To a fault actually.

47) Would you ever share a girl/boyfriend with your best friend?
Let's go with no on that one.

48) Have you lost a friend recently?
Inn the past few years, yes.

49) Are you talking to someone while doing this? Who?
Katy just called and Anthony came in to ask a question.

50) Do you want a relationship right now?
I'm glad the answer to this is yes.

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6-letter X-words
I just finished my most recent quiz of the 6-letter X words.  These are the ones that I got wrong twice in two passes through the lot.  Included are some very common words that I have played before, but seem to elude me when prompted with Zyzzyva.  Hopefully you do better than I do).  312 right out of 336 is 92.5% correct.  I'll take that.



The answers are in white so you have to highlight to get the answers.

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